With much of the media focusing on the plans and objectives being articulated by Trump and his many prospective appointees, I fear that many of us are being distracted from what may be the most ...

Aseni, whiz kid in economics, has seen the viral news that the Central Bank has moved to a new monetary policy instrument ...

Monetary policy decisions can be either contractionary or expansionary. Contractionary monetary policy is also known as “tightening” or “restrictive” policy and is designed to slow down ...

It is also unlikely to offer a pin-point estimate on Japan's neutral rate of interest, or the rate at which monetary policy is neither contractionary nor expansionary. The BOJ has not disclosed ...

While the primary goal of a contractionary (or hawkish ... result in deflation and high unemployment. Dovish or expansionary monetary policy aims to increase the total currency in circulation ...

Capacity utilization in the manufacturing sector has increased to 75% since last year (on a 4-quarter moving average basis), ...

TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is laying the groundwork to raise interest rates again, but has left markets guessing how soon and at what pace it could push up still-low borrowing costs.

The FY25 budget projected a 6.75% GDP growth, but finance ministry officials expect a maximum of 5%. They also predict that inflation is also likely to remain in double digits this year.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is laying the groundwork to raise interest rates again, but has left markets guessing how soon and at what pace it could push up still-low borrowing costs.

These cyclical changes make fiscal policy automatically expansionary during downturns and contractionary during upturns ... only a small part of the stimulus is saved or spent on imports), monetary ...